Chapter 87 Ji Hao and Lin Wen are offline.
"Zhaozhao, hurry up and film a video for Tangtang when you get home," Guan Xiang said while packing her schoolbag.
During this time, Tangtang was going through the most embarrassing period of her life, looking so ugly that it was unbearable to look at. Guan Xiang, who couldn't get away from going to Jinshan Villa, had to ask the girl to film a video for her to see.
The girl, who had been doing her homework, slightly raised her head and said, "I understand. You should go home now."
Guan Xiang's maternal grandmother came to Nan'an City today. She was anxious to go home to see her grandmother, so she hurriedly ran out of the classroom with her schoolbag on her back.
The girl finished the last bit of her homework while sitting in her seat before getting up to leave the classroom. Uncle Dan had a social engagement today and didn't have time to pick her up, so she planned to take the subway home.
There were almost no students left on campus; only the leaves were slowly falling. Autumn had arrived before our eyes, and everything was gradually withering.
As the girl walked to the flower bed and pond, she immediately spotted Deng Xixue standing by the pond. A cool breeze gently blew her high ponytail, and strands of hair fell from her hair tie.
Gu Zhaodi's gaze didn't linger, but as they brushed past each other, she heard her sobbing with her face covered.
She hadn't intended to stop and check on Deng Xixue, but the gasps behind her gradually rose, and she finally feared something might happen to her.
"What's wrong with you?" Gu Zhaodi asked, looking at Deng Xixue, whose face was covered in snot and tears.
Deng Xixue is usually very vain, and she would never let anyone see her in such a disheveled state, especially not a girl she has a grudge against.
When someone asked her why, Deng Xixue cried even harder, and even showed signs of bursting into tears.
Seeing this, the girl had no choice but to take out a tissue from her bag and hand it to her.
The steam blurred her vision, but Deng Xixue could still see the hand and tissue in front of her.
As her gaze traveled up her arm, Deng Xixue instantly felt that she had never been more unlucky in her life than today.
First, she saw through Ji Hao's scumbag nature, and then Gu Zhaodi, with whom she had a grudge, saw her crying without any dignity. It was a complete tragedy.
The girl noticed that Deng Xixue was looking at her with teary eyes without saying a word, which seemed a bit strange. She was about to put down the tissue and leave when Deng Xixue grabbed the hem of her school uniform.
Deng Xixue's face was flushed, and her eyes were swollen with tears. For the first time, her voice carried a soft, pleading tone, "Could you... could you stay with me for a while?"
Seeing that the girl was just staring at her without saying a word for a long time, Deng Xixue slowly released her fingers from the girl's clothes.
Gu Zhaodi didn't know what had happened to her, but considering that Deng Xixue was currently emotionally unstable and was standing by the pond, she ultimately decided to stay.
"Wipe your tears first." The girl handed her a tissue.
This time, Deng Xixue took the tissue, crumpled it into a ball, and haphazardly wiped her usually meticulously cared-for face.
After wiping, her face was covered in red and white streaks, ruining her exquisite makeup from the morning and making her look quite frightening.
"You can...you can." Deng Xixue said, hiccuping several times as she cried, her aggrieved expression evident.
The girl took the water bottle out of her bag and handed it to her. Deng Xixue hesitated for a moment before taking it and saying thank you.
Once Deng Xixue had calmed down, Gu Zhaodi said, "Let's go sit in the pavilion for a while."
She felt it was too dangerous to stand here, especially since Deng Xixue looked like she was about to die.
The two sat in silence in the pavilion, gazing at the artificial hill in the middle of the pond not far away. Finally, Deng Xixue spoke first.
"Thank you for today." Deng Xixue tilted her head slightly to look at the girl, her eyes full of sincerity.
To be honest, the girl felt a little strange. Her behavior today was not like that of the proud and unrestrained Deng Xixue she usually was.
She has lost some of her arrogance and gained more approachability.
"Aren't you going home yet?" The girl didn't want to ask Deng Xixue why she was crying; she just wanted to get her home quickly to prevent her from doing anything foolish.
Deng Xixue gave a smile that looked more like a grimace, "I don't want to go home. If I go home, I'll see Ji Hao."
The Deng and Ji families are neighbors. During this period, Ji Hao's parents went abroad, and Ji Hao temporarily stayed at Deng Xixue's house. They would see each other all the time, so it was impossible to avoid seeing each other.
Gu Zhaodi was even more puzzled now. Wasn't she always the one who liked to hang out with Ji Hao?
"You..." The girl hesitated, thinking that the conflict between the two of them had nothing to do with her, and it was better not to get involved.
Whether it was because the girl showed signs of concern or not, Deng Xixue couldn't hold back anymore, as if she had found an outlet for her urge to confide.
Before the girl could react, Deng Xixue had already begun to sob and recount what she had seen and heard that day.
In short, Lin Wen hooked up with Ji Hao, and the two are dating. Moreover, Deng Xixue overheard Ji Hao talking about how the Ji family was scheming against her in order to revive the Ji family's struggling business in recent years.
Lin Wen is no good either; she's a complete hypocrite, sitting weakly on Ji Hao's lap while badmouthing Deng Xixue.
After hearing this, Gu Zhaodi was torn between feeling sorry for Deng Xixue's plight and marveling at the cunning of Ji Hao and Lin Wen.
"So you want to die?" The girl thought of Deng Xixue standing by the pond with a dejected look on her face, always giving the impression that she was about to commit suicide at any moment.
"Huh?" Deng Xixue finished recounting her ordeal indignantly, her sadness and resentment still lingering, when the girl's words left her speechless.
"Such scumbags and bitches don't deserve my life."
It has to be said that despite being love-obsessed for over a decade, Deng Xixue has remained relatively clear-headed and won't punish herself for others' mistakes.
The girl blinked her innocent eyes. Was she trying to kill herself? Then why was she wasting so many tears standing by the pond?
"Then why are you crying so hard?" The girl said she didn't understand why she was so upset about a jerk.
Deng Xixue was completely speechless. She wanted to see what was going on in the girl's head. Couldn't people vent their emotions?
If the girl knew, she would definitely say that it's not worth wasting tears and emotions on someone who isn't worth it.
"I've liked him for over ten years, but I never imagined he'd be plotting against my family. And that little bitch Lin Wen, I treated her like a best friend, but she's trying to smear me at every turn." Deng Xixue complained angrily, tears welling up in her eyes again.
Sitting to the side, Gu Zhaodi looked helplessly at Deng Xixue, who had been complaining for almost half an hour. If she didn't go home soon, Aunt Zhang would be getting anxious.
"Why don't you retaliate in kind?" For the time being, the girl could only think of giving him a taste of his own medicine.
Getting Deng Xixue home is the most important thing right now. Who knows if she might have another emotional breakdown and try to kill herself if she keeps thinking about it?
Deng Xixue's previously red, swollen, and lifeless eyes instantly lit up. How could she not have thought of that! Of course, the scumbag and the bitch deserved to be thoroughly punished.
Let her be sad for a few more minutes, after all, a relationship of more than ten years can't be broken off so easily.
When she went to the rooftop of the art building to find Ji Hao alone after school in the afternoon, what she saw and what she heard were hard for her to accept.
Seeing Deng Xixue start crying again, the girl didn't get impatient and patiently sat down beside her.
Finally, Deng Xixue cried until she was exhausted and her emotions were released. Her mind cleared up a bit, and she realized that it was really embarrassing to cry in front of a girl.
"Just pretend you never saw me today, and that you know nothing about this matter, understand?" Deng Xixue reverted to her usual noble young lady demeanor, her face still bearing traces of tears, but her tone was now even more haughty.
Gu Zhaodi didn't say much. Seeing that Deng Xixue's emotions had finally stabilized, she got up and left the pavilion.
Seeing the girl leave without saying goodbye, Deng Xixue stomped her foot angrily in the pavilion. She wasn't angry at the girl, but rather at herself.
The girl who left didn't hear Deng Xixue muttering to herself, "I told you not to talk properly, I told you not to talk properly."
As she spoke, she gently patted her own mouth, her face full of annoyance.
She had always known that her personality was not likable, and she was content with having a close friend like Lin Wen. She never expected that Lin Wen would turn out to be such a treacherous person who stabbed her in the back.
She was also well aware that her other followers only hung out with her because her family was rich.
As I thought about it, I remembered the girl who had just left. Although she didn't have a happy family background, she had a good friend like Guan Xiang.
After this incident, the relationship between Gu Zhaodi and Deng Xixue became lukewarm. They would exchange a few words during lunch break in the dormitory, but otherwise they did not have much communication.
Deng Xixue, however, took the girl's words about taking revenge to heart and began to gather a whole bunch of scandals about Ji Hao and Lin Wen.
On a peaceful afternoon, all the students and teachers on campus learned about their relationship.
The gentle and handsome school heartthrob is actually a violent animal abuser, while Lin Wen, who always seemed like a pure and innocent girl, is a thief. For a while, their relationship was the talk of the town among the students.
In the end, both of them hurriedly transferred schools and left. Especially after the Deng family learned the true nature of the Ji family, the decades-long friendship between the Ji and Deng families came to an end.
Ji Hao's family hurriedly sold their assets and went abroad, fearing that if they were any later, they would be suppressed by the Deng family. Lin Wen's whereabouts were unknown, and it was rumored that she was retaliated against by Deng Xixue after leaving school.
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